Clothes-wringer.



L. M. MORGAN.

CLOTHES WRINGER.

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Patented Sept. 26, 1911.

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LAURA M. MORGAN, QF ROCK MART, GEORGIA.

CLOTHES-WRINGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 26, 1911.

Application filed October 18, 1909. Serial No. 523,149.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LAURA M. MORGAN, a citizen of the United States, residing. at Rock Mart, in the county of Polk and State of Georgia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Wringers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to certain new' and useful improvements in clothes wringers.

The object of my invention is to provide a light, neat, simply constructed, readily operated device, arranged to be clamped to a Wash tub to receive a fabric receptacle containing the clothes to be wrung, the operation of wringing the clothes being accomplished in a manner nearly representing the operation of wringing clothes by hand.

A further object is to provide a simply constructed wringer so arranged that exceeding long pieces such as sheets and blankets can be expeditiously handled and wrung.

With the above and other objects in view, the present invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and particularly pointed out in the appended claim, it being understood that changes in the specific structure shown and described may be made within the scope of the claim without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawings forming a portion-of this specification, and in which like numerals of reference indicate similar parts in the several views, Figure 1 shows an elevational view of a wash tub, disclosing my wringer as attached, Fig. 2 shows a top View of the wringer detached, Fig. 3 shows an end View of the wringer, Fig. 4: is a plan view of the receptacle holding the fabrics, Fig. 5 is a sectional view on the line 5-5 of Fig. 4, Fig. 6 shows a top View of the fabric receptacle secured to the wringer. Fig. 7 is a section on the line 7-7 of Fig. 1 looking in the direction of the arrows.

In carrying out the aim of my invention, I employ a head comprising two similar members marked 5 and 6, the member 6 carrying the securing screw 7. Extending from this bifurcated head, which is forked so that the same may be set over the edge of a tub, are the two similar arms 8 and 9, forming a yoke, these arms being provided with vertical standards 9 each having the lips 3 between which lips a suitable drain board 25 is held.

Secured to the upper end of one of the standards 9 is a horizontally extending stem portion 10, from which extend in opposite directions the two similar hook portions 13, the ends of which are directed slightly toward one another. Extending upward from the stern portion 10 is the bar portion 12, forming a hook. The opposite standard 9 is provided at its upper end 15 with a suitable bearing 18 arranged to hold the arbor 19 which arbor is provided with a crank extension 20 forming a hook. This arbor has secured to it approximately U-shaped hooks 21, the ends 22 of which are directed slightly toward one another similar to the hook arrangement shown upon the member 10. This arbor works within the bearing 18, and is provided with the operating handle 17 having the securing eye 16.

The drain board 25 is provided with the upstanding flanges 26, which are directed toward the reduced end 27, this drain board being set at an angle so that the water expressed from the clothing in dripping upon the drain board will be directed into the tub to which the wringer is attached.

In connection with this wringer I use a fabric receptacle in the form of a bag marked 28 which has two opposite edges 29 hemmed, the bag, being centrally slit at opposite ends as shown at 26, so that these hemmed edges may be carried over the oppositely positioned hooks upon the member 10 and the arbor 19. The fabrics to be wrung are placed into this bag-shaped receptacle, being introduced through the slits 26 which serve as access openings, the receptacle then being secured to the stationary and arbor hooks, as is shown in Fig. 6.

The operation of my device is as follows: The fabric having been placed within the receptacle, and this receptacle having been placed upon the hooks l3 and 21, the oper ator proceeds to turn the crank 17. In this operation the fabric receptacle is twisted during the revolution of the arbor 19, the twisting motion beginning at the center of the receptacle. In this twisting operation,

the contents of the bag are tightly squeezed.

The water expelled from the fabrics finds an escape through the bag or receptacle 28 dripping upon the drain board and from thence into the tub. The clothing within the fabric receptacle may then be redistributed so that the fabric at the ends during the first operation may be brought to the center when the operation may be repeated. It is of course understood that the arbor 19 can be rotated in opposite directions.

From the foregoing it will be seen that in my wringer, the operation of squeezing the fabric is from the middle toward the ends. As the clothing can be conveniently positioned within the middle or center of the fabric bag, the wringing operation may be made complete.

The wringer is simple and inexpensive in construction, and both durable and efficient in operation.

What is claimed is:

A clothes wringing device, comprising a horizontally disposed yoke, an integrally and centrally formed clamp for engagement with the edge of a tub, vertical standards on the terminals of the yoke, one of said vertical standards having a plurality of clothes engaging hooks on the upper end thereof, a rotatable member journaled in the upper end of the other of said vertical standards, said rotatable member being also provided with a plurality of clothes engaging hooks, certain of said hooks extending vertically, and certain of said hooks extending laterally, and parallel lips formed on said vertical standards adjacent their lower ends, said lips being adapted to support a drain board therebetween.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

LAURA M. MORGAN.

Witnesses:

C. P. CAMPBELL, H. M. Es'rns.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. C. 

